What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. Let the world praise or blame you. Let… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God is true. The universe is a dream. Blessed am I that I know this moment that I have been and shall… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“As all the rivers of the world constantly pour their waters into the ocean, but the ocean’s grand, majestic nature remains undisturbed… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion -… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
